The LEADER Consortium provides work/life support by identifying local and regional resources that may serve as a starting point for STEM faculty members needing to conduct research on child and/or elder care.

The university has adopted a childbirth policy for female graduate students to accommodate the demands of late stage new policy will allow the new mother to maintain full-time, registered student status, as well as facilitate her return to full participation in class work and, where applicable, research, teaching and clinical training in a seamless manner.

The slow response of the academy to accommodate the increasing share of PhDs who are women do not wish to remain childless has resulted in the loss of skills and scholarship to the scientific enterprise. A current front-page article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, "How babies alter academic careers," cites a nationally representative study by Mary Ann Mason and Marc Goulden that finds raising children, especially early in academic careers of PhD recipients between 1973 and 1999, had a negative effect

Rhode Island legislation protects a woman's choice to breastfeed by requiring an employer to make "a reasonable effort to provide a private, secure, and sanitary room or other location in close proximity to the work area, other than a toilet stall, where an employee can express her milk or breastfeed her...

In response to President Carothers’ request for a revised policy regarding parental leave, a review of relevant literature, existing URI policies, and policies at other universities was conducted during academic year 2003-2004. This document summarizes the results of that research, outlining several research-based recommendations for creation of the new policy.

Mothers of infants and toddlers are presently the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. labor force. Approximately 70% of mothers return to work full time prior to their child’s third birthday and one-third of mothers return to work within 3 months of giving birth (The CDC Guide to Breastfeeding Intervention)...

Creating a family-friendly climate at URI must include child care concerns. Increasing the availability of on-campus child care is currently being addressed by the Women's Center, ADVANCE, and the President's Commission on the Status of Women.

The new Georgia Tech and Home Park Childcare Center opened in mid-January 2003. The Center is managed by Bright Horizons Family Solutions, the No. 1 childcare management provider in the U.S. with over 400 locations.

In response to President Carothers’ request for a revised policy regarding parental leave, a review of relevant literature, existing URI policies, and policies at other universities was conducted during academic year 2003-2004. This document summarizes the results of that research, outlining several research-based recommendations for creation of the new policy.

At some time or other, most University employees will be faced with the difficulty of balancing the needs of family with the needs of work. Childbirth, adoption, child care and caring for ill children, spouses, partners and parents are some of the family issues you may encounter. It is the...

“The ADVANCE Program for Institutional Transformation, with the support of interested individuals around campus, has proposed the creation of five nursing moms centers on the Georgia Tech campus. Each center will: Be a private space for nursing moms to express milk; Be available for faculty, students and staff; Contain a professional grade pump, mini-refrigerator, chair, table, breastfeeding/parenting literature; Serve a particular area on campus, i.e., the Administration Building, the Student Center and th

“Thanks to the concerted efforts of the President's Commission on the Status of Women and ADVANCE, URI now has a provision for paid Parental Leave for faculty. Similar policies for many staff unions have followed. Reflecting our philosophical framework, this policy includes a paid leave component for both women and men who need time surrounding the arrival of a child.” The official policy, general guidelines and definitions, and clarifications and extensions of existing policies are explained. With the help

In response to President Carothers’ request for a revised policy regarding parental leave, a review of relevant literature, existing URI policies, and policies at other universities was conducted during academic year 2003-2004. This document summarizes the results of that research, outlining several research-based recommendations for creation of the new policy.

This presentation covers many statistics on pregnancy and parenthood in terms of time to graduate, attain tenure, and other careers. It was presented at the 2008 ADVANCE PI Meeting in a session called "Do Babies Matter? The New Norm on Flexibility in Science and Engineering.

Over the last decade, campus child care has expanded and been strengthened by a supportive university administration. Previous studies conducted by the Committee on Women in the University and the University Child Care Committee have been encouraged and many recommendations submitted by these groups have been implemented.

Women faculty are rallying around the issue of lack of campus childcare facilities and an inability to push the issue forward with the administration in spite of various committees finding that there is an intense need for such facilities.

Many current University policies are dated and, in the present environment, are beginning to undermine our competitiveness in a variety of ways.... Within the University, LSA and Engineering have adopted policies that are more generous than University policy. We recommend that University policies be brought into alignment with these more generous policies.

“The Child Development Centers at the University of Rhode Island offer preschool and kindergarten programs for children ages 3 to 6 years. These programs are operated by the Department of Human Development and Family Studies in order to provide a setting for observation, participation, and research focusing on young children and their families. Opportunities in these areas are available to all students and faculty at the University.” From this webpage you can read about their missions and philosophy and als

Having children as a faculty member requires a balance between responsibilities at home and the demands of one’s professional life (i.e., the work-life balance). Faculty members make complex personal and professional decisions to raise children.

Since its grand opening in August of 1990, the Adelante Child Development Center has striven to provide the students, staff and faculty of the University of Texas at El Paso with the highest quality child care possible.

This presentation from the 2010 PI meeting includes some of the findings from Mason and Goulden's studies of the impact of family formation on the careers of women STEM faculty and highlights ways that Title IX can provide a lever for change.

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. SBE-0244916, with additional support from the Clare Boothe Luce program of the Henry Luce Foundation. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or the Henry Luce Foundation.